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Escentric Molecules

Escentric Molecules is an independent perfume house co-founded in London in 2006 by German perfumer Geza Schoen and creative director Paul White. It is built on a single idea: taking a synthetic molecule and bringing it to the forefront, alone or nearly so, instead of hiding it in a base. Its perfumes come in pairs.

Escentric Molecules perfumes

A laboratory molecule brought to the forefront

Iso E Super was created in an IFF laboratory in 1973 and does not exist in nature. Perfumers used it in small doses for its woody, velvety effect, without the public knowing its name.

Geza Schoen, born in Kassel and based in Berlin, made it the subject of a perfume rather than a base ingredient. He opened Escentric Molecules in 2006, with an approach that rejects codes of gender and season.

Two perfumes per molecule

Each pair explores the same molecule in two ways: the Molecule presents it almost alone, the Escentric places it within a composition. Escentric 01 surrounds it with pink pepper, Amalfi lemon and iris; Molecule 01 sticks to it alone.

The molecules chosen since then are Ambroxan, vetiveryl acetate and Javanol, a synthetic sandalwood. The release pace follows no commercial calendar: the house states fifteen years of work for Molecule 01, three years for a more recent release.

What the house does not claim

Schoen himself states that Escentric 01 is not the first perfume to load up on Iso E Super: Halston's first women's perfume carried about eight percent of it, within a rose and patchouli structure. The novelty lies in the dose and the intent, not in the ingredient.

The house celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2026 and remains independent. Its bottles without caps and its stripped-down campaigns reflect the same approach of restraint as its formulas.